I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.